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How midlife awakens dormant spiritual yearnings

My teenage rebellion was becoming an atheist but now at forty I find myself hungry for the Lutheran hymns of my childhood and do not understand what is happening to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The spiritual traditions we rejected in youth can resurface decades later as sources of comfort and meaning we did not know we needed.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ancestors in faith — the continuing relationship?”

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